Re: [tied] Etruscan numerals

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "petusek" <petusek@...> wrote:

> Glen:
> > > Is there any possibility that quattro and sa are related?
> >
> > No. We reconstruct *kWetwores in IE, the ultimate source for

Spanish

> > /quatro/ (one 't'). I would link IE *kWetwores with my

retranslated

>
> Glen, Morten might have meant Italian 'quattro', where two 't's

occur, as

> far as I know :-), so you don't have to object to his spelling, I

guess

> (well, just if, of course, he really wanted to write Italian

quattro and not

> Spanish /quatro/, as you write it, which, by the way, is often, if

not

> always, written cuatro, as far as I know, and I don't know much, I

admit)

>
> Petusek

Oops! I forgot it! The correct spelling should be /cuatro/ in
Spanish, but this doesn't affect in any way pronounciation and etymon.
Of course Morten meant Italian /quattro/.

Marco